Question

I have an Activity in Landscape-Mode. Inside there is a Custom-Title-View aligned like this:

Is it possible to keep the landscape mode and ‘fake’ this one View into portrait-mode like this:

I have tried to overwrite my custom TitleView and put something like this to draw(Canvas)

 public class VerticalTitle extends Title{

      public draw(Canvas){
           canvas.save();
           canvas.rotate(getWidth() / 2, getHeight() / 2);
           // i tryed many translations, but get none to work
           canvas.translate(0, getHeight());
           super.draw(canvas);
           canvas.restore()
      }

      public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec){
           super.onMeasure(heightMeasureSpec, widthMeasureSpec);
           setMeasuredDimension(getMeasuredHeight(), getMeasuredWidth());
      }
}

If it is on any interest, The TitleBar extends from RelativeLayout and has fixed height and fill_parent width

The setRotate parameter from View is not an option, because the app should stay compatible to 2.2.

Answer 1

you have to extend Text view And build your custom vertical TextView first see these two links for more details

1. Vertical TextView
2. Vertical rotated label

and after that in your Layout-land you can use this Xml file for your layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <com.yourpackage.CustomVerticalTextView
        android:layout_width="42dp"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:text="@string/hello"
        android:background="#0000FF" />

</LinearLayout>

If you want to rotate the layout instead of rotating all of its children by 90 degrees use
LayoutAnimationController

see this SO thread for more details